Theoretically, if we can drive the carbon footprint per captia down far enough such that the carbon footprint of 10 billion people is lower than the rate of carbon removal (natural and artifical), then we're fine.
Definitely a hard problem, but so is restructuring society into a non-capitalist, non-consumption based system.
So I think the "coherent plan" is to accelerate this decrease in carbon per captia. It's trending the right way but too slowly. But perhaps with the power of the market's exponential growth, if we incentivize it the right way, it will accelerate this in a way to avoid total collapse.
Current projects suggest it will peak/plateau around 10 billion.
In many developed capitalist economies carbon footprint per person is decreasing.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...
Theoretically, if we can drive the carbon footprint per captia down far enough such that the carbon footprint of 10 billion people is lower than the rate of carbon removal (natural and artifical), then we're fine.
Definitely a hard problem, but so is restructuring society into a non-capitalist, non-consumption based system.
So I think the "coherent plan" is to accelerate this decrease in carbon per captia. It's trending the right way but too slowly. But perhaps with the power of the market's exponential growth, if we incentivize it the right way, it will accelerate this in a way to avoid total collapse.